If only Wales were as inventive in their playmaking as they have been in
finding new ways to lose to southern hemisphere opponents. It is still five
years since they have beaten one of the Sanzar nations and still they have
beaten South Africa only once in their long history.

Once again this evening, the home crowd traipsed disconsolately away from the
Millennium Stadium with a sense of what might have been, even if the
Springboks were deserving winners of this breathless scrap of a game. Warren
Gatland was successful with the Lions in Australia this summer, but his
record